John White, Louisiana Superintendent of Education, said he and the governor 'agree to disagree' on whether the state should use Common Core State Standards.

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Mike Hasten
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After sitting through more than an hour of what the governor's chief of staff called "a history of corruption in this state" and Gov. Bobby Jindal's repeated emphasis that the state procurement law must be followed when selecting a firm to supply test materials, Superintendent of Education John White said there was no progress toward settling the real point of contention between the two.

"We are not in a better place, policy-wise, than we were two weeks ago," White said after meeting with the governor and his chief of staff, Kyle Plotkin. "I am not hopeful that there is a way of sitting down ...